Alongside plants that absorb sunlight energy, there exist those that feed on flesh. Carnivorous plants are distributed throughout the world, especially in arid places with harsh climates and soil conditions.
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The Cu Chi Wildlife Rescue Station in Ho Chi Minh City plays a crucial role in the preservation of Vietnam’s endangered wildlife. Treaties and laws allow police and the Forestry Department to seize protected animals from smugglers. But someone must then take care of these animals if they are to recover from the experience.
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Among the lizards, the Agamidae family include species with long legs and long toes, which it possible for them _to move fast on the ground; some species have skin that connects their front legs to the hind ones so they can glide.
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Compared to ‘flying flowers’, in nature, the insect is the group with the largest population. Lots of species have been named but many have not been discovered, published or named. The following are some spectacular species to be found in Vietnam.
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In the central province of Nghe An, there has been a craze for hunting sparrows because drinking their blood raw and eating their flesh cooked have been thought to promote sexual strength and health.
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Trang advised we leave our motorbikes at the park and take a taxi in order to look more professional. We were checking on a case in Danang, in Central Vietnam, early one morning last April. It had been reported to the Forest Protection Department (FPD) a year before, but nothing had happened.
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The great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) is the biggest member of the Bucerotidae family. It lives in semitropical forests in India, Southeast Asia and southern China. It is a big bird with a massive and colourful bill. In Vietnamese it is called chim hồng hoàng or chim mỏ sừng, (chim = bird, hồng = pink, hoàng = regal, mỏ = beak, sừng = horn).
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On a survey at Chứa Chan mountain, 100 km northeast off Ho Chi Minh City, in Dong Nai Province in 2010, users of a website about Vietnam’s forest creatures, www.vncreatures.net, discovered a population of 16 of black-shanked douc langurs, scientific name Pygathrix nigripes, including three infants and some that were pregnant.
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